Montserrat (disambiguation)
Montserrat is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean, originally named after the Virgin of Montserrat, itself named after the Montserrat mountain in Catalonia. In Catalan, the name means "serrated mountain".
Montserrat can also refer to:
Places
Catalonia
- Montserrat (mountain), a mountain in Catalonia, Spain
- Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey, home of:
- Virgin of Montserrat, a "black Madonna" statue and object of pilgrimage, also patron saint of Catalonia
- Santa Cecília de Montserrat, a former Benedictine abbey in Marganell (Bages)
- Sant Benet de Montserrat Convent, a Benedictine convent on Montserrat Mountain
- Olesa de Montserrat, municipality next to the mountain of Montserrat
- Monistrol de Montserrat, municipality including the monastery and most of the mountain
- Montserrat (department), the Napoleonic department from 1812 to 1813, during the Peninsular War
Americas
- Montserrat, a region of Trinidad and Tobago
- Montserrat, Dominican Republic, a municipal district in Baoruco Province
- Montserrat, Buenos Aires, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Montserrat, Missouri, an unincorporated community
- Monserrate, a mountain adjacent to Bogotá, Colombia
Other
- Montserrat d'Alcalà, a municipality in Valencia, Spain
- Nuestra Señora de Montserrat, a church in Madrid, Spain
- Montserrat, an area of Bolton, Greater Manchester, a town in the United Kingdom, named for Montserrat Road
People
- Given name:
- See the list of people with Montserrat as a given name under Montserrat (given name)
- Last name:
- Alba Montserrat (born 1984), Catalan football goalkeeper
- Andreu Montserrat (Codalet, 16th–17th c.), Catalan and Valencian priest and music theorist
- Antoni Montserrat, the name of various Catalan and Mallorcan people
- Dominic Montserrat (1964–2004), British egyptologist and papyrologist
- Joan Sella i Montserrat (born 1960), Catalan journalist
- Joaquín de Montserrat (1700–1771), Valencian viceroy of New Spain
- Josep Montserrat i Torrents (born 1932), Catalan Historian
- Marti Montserrat Guillemat (1906–1990), Catalan musician
- Nil Montserrat (born 1988), Catalan racing driver
- Octavio Montserrat Chapa-Luna (1905–1985), Valencian musician, director and composer.
Other
- Montserrat (given name), a popular female name in Catalan-speaking areas
- Llibre Vermell de Montserrat a medieval musical manuscript from the monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat
- Montserrat (play) (1948), a play by Emmanuel Roblès
- Cap de la Montserrat cridant (Head of Montserrat Screaming, ca. 1942), a sculpture by Juli González (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya).
- Montserrat (MBTA station), a commuter rail train station in Beverly, Massachusetts, United States
- Montserrat College of Art, in Beverly, Massachusetts, United States
- Nuestra Señora de Monserrate. a cathedral in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico
- HMS Montserrat (K586), a British frigate in service in the Royal Navy from 1944 to 1946
- Montserrat, a Google Fonts typeface.
Monsalvat
- Monsalvat, or Munsalväsche, a variant name of a place in the Grail legends is sometimes also called Montserrat
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